New investigations reveal that the Kyiv government sabotaged its own oversight mechanisms as corruption scandals multiplied. For nearly three years, the war in Ukraine has been portrayed in the West as a morally clear confrontation: a democracy under siege by an aggressor intent on erasing its sovereignty. In that context, any doubt about the use of the billions allocated to support the Ukrainian state was quickly dismissed as Russian propaganda or as an attempt to weaken the resistance. But the veil is beginning to fall. Recent international journalistic investigations, together with reports from Ukraine’s own Court of Auditors and warnings from the European Union and the IMF, confirm what had been an open secret for years: corruption remains endemic, and President Volodymyr Zelensky’s government has tried to contain the leaks without deeply reforming a system that is overflowing on all sides.
